Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting was closed by the singing of "Soldiers Field" and "Gridiron King" and by cheers for every members of the team...
...group of Texas boys and their leader Bowman MacMurray. Together they make a success of their high school football and then go to Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where the effects of their presence on football are immediate and profound. Form there on it is a story of one gridiron success after another, with an interlude caused by the war, until finally the team comes against Harvard in 1920. There is the semblance of a plot with a real villain and there is also a little love interest...
...second successive time this season Princeton succumbed to a superior attack on the gridiron, losing to the University of Chicago eleven 9-0 at Palmer Stadium Saturday. The Tiger was out-played and out-fought, and Chicago's goal was never threatened. A drop-kick late in the second quarter and a touchdown from a well-executed pass in the last period gave Chicago the first football victory of a western team over either Princeton, Yale or the University...
Last year there was much talk of a game with Illinois. That university is one of the largest outside of the east; in many ways it is most typical of Middle-Western colleges; moreover, it is eager to meet Harvard on the gridiron and Its football record assures an excellent contest. But Illinois, having a prestige and a certain pride of its own, unite naturally objects to playing Harvard on terms that are satisfactory to smaller colleges; namely, in the Stadium without the possibility of a return game. It has, however, made the concession that the return game...
...tomorrow's game. Bayard Wharton '22, who has been playing on the second team, has been advised by the Crimson doctors to give up football for the remainder of the season on account of a seriously wrenched and strained back, and accordingly will not take part in further gridiron work this fall